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Graphic Organizers From the Teacher's Guide to Using Storia
All of the graphic organizers, worksheets, and other downloadable teaching resources featured in the Teachers Guide to Using Storia.
- Grades: PreK–K, 1–2, 3–5, 6–8, 9–12
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Character Graphic Organizers
Use the character traits organizers during independent reading or during whole- or small-group instruction to help students identify a character’s thoughts, feelings, actions and attributes.
You can choose the graphic organizer that best suits your students’ thought processes and learning styles.
Identifying a Character's Feelings (PDF)
Write down a character's main feeling and then list evidence from the text that supports your thinking.
Identifying Character Traits With Evidence (PDF)
Choose a character and then list that character's personality traits, writing down evidence from the text that supports the traits
Storia Character Traits Organizer (PDF)
Choose a character from the e-book you're reading and then list one of that character's traits and evidence of that it.
Concept Maps
While these graphic organizers can be used throughout the reading experience, they are especially useful in helping students gather ideas and write in response to text.
You can use them for ongoing informal assessment and to provide your students with an instructional focus for their reading.
The 5 W's and How (PDF)
Students write about their e-books by answering who, what, when, where, why, and how.
Concept Map Graphic Organizer (PDF)
This graphic organizer encourages students to think through all of the ideas associated with a topic.
E-Reading Response Letter and Sample (PDF)
Write a letter to your teacher or another student and tell them about the book you're reading.
KWL Chart for E-Books (PDF)
Before reading, students use this chart to track what they know and want to know about the book's topic; afterwards, they record what they've learned.
Storia Story Elements Graphic Organizer (PDF)
Use this graphic organizer to help organize students as they construct meaning from what they read.
E-Book Club Graphic Organizers
When your students are working together in formal or informal book clubs, these PDFs will help you keep track of their progress.
E-Book Club Reflection Sheet (PDF)
Students reflect on the discussions of their e-book club by answering these questions.
Student Groups E-Book Club Log (PDF)
Teachers, use this organizer to keep track of the students in your e-book clubs.
Weekly E-Book Club Progress Log (PDF)
Record your observations about each e-book club, its strengths, areas in need of improvement, and goals.
E-Reading Management Logs
By keeping track of their reading activities in these logs, your students wil have a record both of the books they completed and what they found least and most compelling. You'll also have a formal record of each student's activities, reading progress, and reflections as readers.
Reading Log With Star Ratings (PDF)
Students can use this to log their books' titles, authors, and genres, their independent reading progress, and how much they liked a book.
Storia Classroom Log (PDF)
Use this chart to track the device numbers and the students assigned to each device.
Storia Independent E-Reading Log (PDF)
Students record their independent reading progress and how much they liked a book.
Storia Literacy Center Tracker (PDF)
Fill in the names of the e-books you read with your group and the Storia enrichment activities you complete.
Storia Reading Attitude Survey (PDF)
Students answer questions about reading, using a dictionary, finding books, favorite authors, and more.
Storia E-Book Response (PDF)
Students answer questions about reading with Storia, including the best part about reading an e-book, their favorite types of interactive activities, and the best thing about Storia.
Storia Open Response Sheet (PDF)
Primary students use this response sheet to describe the e-book they read that day.
Storia Reflection Sheet (PDF)
Use this grid to record what you like about Storia as you use it, your students' reactions, and any issues or questions you have.
Primary Reading Response Graphic Organizers
These primary-grade reading response organizers are a great way to get younger students into the habit of reflecitng on what they read and responding to questions in response to reading.
Primary Reading Response: Character Change (PDF)
Students tell how a character changes from the beginning to the end of the story.
Primary Reading Response: Daily Response (PDF)
Ask students to respond to their daily independent reading with this worksheet, which asks them to draw a picture and write a sentence about what they've read.
Primary Reading Response: Draw and Write (PDF)
Draw a picture about your book and then write about it.
Primary Reading Response: Favorite Character (PDF)
Students draw and write about their favorite character.
Primary Reading Response: Favorite Part (PDF)
Students draw and write about their favorite part of an e-book.
Primary Reading Response: Summarizing a Story (PDF)
Students draw pictures illustrating the beginning, middle, and end of their book.
Storia E-Booktalk Graphic Organizer and Rubric (PDF)
Students follow step-by-step directions to write a booktalk using compelling language.
Reading Strategies Graphic Organizers
Use these reading strategy organizers during whole-class and small-group instruction to focus students on drawing conclusions, identifying conflict and solution, comparing and contrasting, sequencing, finding the main idea, and identifying cause and effect.
Students can also use these organizers when practicing how to read strategically during independent reading time.
Cause and Effect Graphic Organizer (PDF)
List two cause and effect relationships from the e-book you are reading.
Compare and Contrast Venn Diagram (PDF)
After students read their e-books, they can use this Venn diagram to compare and contrast.
Storia Conflict and Solution Graphic Organizer (PDF)
Students list the main conflict in the e-book they are reading and then list one or more solutions from the text.
Drawing Conclusions E-Reading Organizer (PDF)
Students write down clues from the author and then tell what conclusions they've drawn from those clues.
Main Idea and Supporting Details (PDF)
After reading, students record the main idea and the details that support it.
Sequencing: First, Next, Last (PDF)
Draw three quick sketches of the story in the correct first, next, last order. Then write a sentence about each drawing.
Sequencing: First, Next, Then, After That, Last (PDF)
After reading a book, write the five most important story events in the correct sequence.
Time Line Graphic Organizer (PDF)
Students use boxes to put in order important events from the books they are reading.
Vocabulary Organizers
Help students acquire new vocabulary with these graphic organizers that encourage them to get into the habit of recording and storing new words, as well as figuring out meaning by using clues.
Infer and Define New Vocabulary Words (PDF)
When students find an unfamiliar word, they write down its inferred meaning, look it up, and then record the actual meaning.
Inferring New Vocabulary Organizer (PDF)
This chart helps students track new words, inferred and actual meanings, and their thoughts.
My Word Collector A-Z Vocabulary Organizer (PDF)
Students collect interesting words from their reading.
Word Meaning Web Vocabulary Organizer (PDF)
After reading a Storia book, students write a new vocabulary word and then come up with four synonyms and write two sentences.
Word Reservoir Vocabulary Organizer (PDF)
Students use these pages to track new, interesting words they come across while reading.
More Resources
Two resources will help you introduce parents to Storia and how they can use it at home to help turn their children into strong readers, plus a link to another collection of reading comprehension, reading response, vocabulary, nonfiction, and other downloadable resources for teaching with Storia.
Sample Letter Telling Parents About Storia (PDF)
A sample letter that lets parents know how Storia works in the classroom -- and how they can use Storia at home to turn their children into strong, lifelong readers.
Suggestions for Extending Storia Reading at Home (PDF)
Tips to parents on how to extend Storia at home.
Downloadable Teaching Materials to Use With Storia
Choose from graphic organizers, charts, reading response sheets, and other donwloadable e-reading resources that can be used with Storia books.
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- Subjects:Reading Comprehension, Reading Assessment, Teacher Tips and Strategies, Teaching with Technology
